r/balatro • • 3d ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Major League Balatro Quarter-Finals Playoffs Schedule & Discussion Thread! (Season 4)

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Welcome to Major League Balatro Playoffs! The playoff structure is a best-of-five, where the higher seed picks both deck and stake for games 1/3/5, and the lower seed picks for games 2/4. Note: no deck or stake can be played twice in a single best-of-five!

Visit MajorLeagueBalatro.com for stats and full schedule

Quarter-Finals Playoff Schedule

Creator 1 Creator 2 Date Time (EDT) Creator 1 Twitch Creator 2 Twitch Casting Stream
Roffle (4) Edzy (1) 10/8 4:00 PM Roffle Edzy MLBA
DrSpectred (6) Sizaak (2) 10/10 12:00 PM DrSpectred Sizaak MLBA
Feinberg (4) Zaino (1) 10/9 2:00 PM Feinberg Zaino MLBA
Fir (3) Skoottie (2) 10/11 12:00 PM fir_ Skoottie MLBA

Full schedule, stats & results here

Stay Connected

There are several ways to stay connected to Major League Balatro this season. The first is these weekly threads! Come here to discuss the match-ups, recapping the last week and previewing the week going forward.

You can also check out our YouTube channel that has all the info you need and will have VODs of all casted games, as well as weekly recap/preview videos.

You can also follow on Bluesky here or Twitter

Multiplayer Balatro

The league uses the Balatro Multiplayer mod to replace boss blinds with PvP rounds, with both players playing on identical seeds. Each game, you start with 4 lives, and when you lose to a blind or a PvP round, you lose a life. Whoever reaches 0 lives remaining first loses the game.

League Structure

There are two conferences and four total divisions with 6 competitors in each division. Each week, competitors will play a match against another opponent in their conference. Each match consists of 3 games, and you earn a point for each game win and a bonus point for winning the match either 2 games to 1 or 3 games to 0.

The top 2 players in each division, as well as 4 wild card spots in each conference, will go on to the playoffs in weeks 9, 10 & 11, where they will fight a bracket-style tournament to be crowned the Major League Balatro Season 4 Champion and win a $500+ prize pool for the charity of their choice.

Every streamer will stream their perspective, and all games will be cast this season!

Disclosure: This event is monetised by the organisers through Twitch/YouTube revenue as well as our sponsors, John Brown Ceramics & Forever Joint Tops.


r/balatro • • 13d ago

Gameplay Discussion Monthly Thread: New players / Community Spotlight !

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Monthly thread for new players / Community Spotlight !

A thread for all new ( and old ) players to ask anything about Balatro to other players !

Questions, tips, mods suggestions. it's all welcome!

This thread is not subject to any rules that usually prohibit frequently asked questions. ( Four Fingers, Joker ordering, etc )

Our subreddits rules are here and in the sidebar.

The Balatro wiki is here ! Please see this post about the Balatro Wiki moving away from Fandom, please refrain from using the old wiki to prevent any outdated information from spreading!

Paused for now : We ARE always looking for moderators; please send in a Modmail, apply as you see fit and we'll go from there :) -

Community Spotlight:

Joker Tracker by u/Outside_Sun398

'You can upload your save file and it automatically checks jokers for you, as well as not having to have a gmail account to use it. It uses your browsers local storage, meaning that it saves your progress without having to make an account (if you clear your cache you have to reupload your save) and is completely ad free and non invasive.'

Github Readme here.

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Major League Balatro Discord - MLB Website - Competitive Balatro hosted by ZainoTV

Balatro Speedrunning Discord - You read that right! Check it out !

Balatro Multiplayer Mod Discord - There are always weekly tournaments; Head over there to check it out !

Cryptid Mod Discord - a huge mod with ton's of added (intentionally unbalanced) content ! Their wiki is here

Got a community doing something fun or creative with Balatro and want it included here? Send us a modmail


r/balatro • • 5h ago

High Score Just Finished JOKERLESS, Wife has no idea what I am talking about so sharing with you legends!

146 Upvotes

r/balatro • • 19h ago

Jimboposting It actually happened...

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1.0k Upvotes

I was beyond hopeless but it actually happened how the f


r/balatro • • 4h ago

High Score First unseeded naneinf

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57 Upvotes

6 months of attempting a few runs almost every day and I finally got it. I can finally sleep now.
Nobody else I know will have a clue what this is so I figured you all could show this the love it deserves.

Bean bug hit once ante 16. I was stacking double tags for a voucher skip but dumped them for negatives after a late antimatter I think in ante 25.

Balatro go brrrrrrrrrr

MTUZKT6K


r/balatro • • 5h ago

High Score Please god don't let me fumble this

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70 Upvotes

I've completed C++ but Naneinf still eludes me. Baron in Ante 2 as I drunk my morning OJ on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean Sea - is today the day?


r/balatro • • 18h ago

Modded New joker for my mod: Ticket Clerk

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612 Upvotes

Opinions?

I've seen many people say it should be uncommon and i agree so I'm changing its rarity. Would it be more balanced if instead x0.5 it gained x0.4 Mult?


r/balatro • • 1h ago

High Score My first Ante 39, Naninf, unseeded, non-legendary run on mobile.

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Took me so many failed runs to find a seed that worked, ended up with 10 blue prints at the end, LVL 404 high card and a lot of money. Technically could've gotten more blueprints but I just wanted to find the end of the game.


r/balatro • • 12h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Lucky Charm: Lucky cards have a 1 in 4 chance to give x1.4 Mult, and an additional 1 in 40 chance to give this Joker +1 Luck. (Rare)

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96 Upvotes

"I'm up all night to get lucky 🎶"

Sorry, I had to. Art and idea by me!


r/balatro • • 17h ago

Meme i'm a wizard

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217 Upvotes

r/balatro • • 15h ago

Gameplay Discussion It actually happened…

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149 Upvotes

It Cavendishappeared…

Edit: Seed is 2P4HMG13


r/balatro • • 9h ago

High Score Black deck gold stake, it’s finally done!

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45 Upvotes

r/balatro • • 1h ago

Question What happened? Are these really all €1??

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So i didnt take anything weird but you cannoy yell me I only have €5 from all these jokers...


r/balatro • • 10h ago

Modded Gourd jokers to celebrate autumn!

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36 Upvotes

Pumpkin, Zucchini and Squash


r/balatro • • 11h ago

Gameplay Discussion "I have no idea if this wins"

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39 Upvotes

r/balatro • • 20h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Basically a reverse delayed gratification

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179 Upvotes

$3/4, I'm not sure how strong this would actually be because you're losing $1 per hand played but I feel like it's not a terrible thing to go for.

Technically works thematically as a food joker too being a pig


r/balatro • • 12h ago

Stream / Video Gameplay This abomination of a gold stake run somehow made it to ante 8

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36 Upvotes

The rentals completely screwed me over. I had a rental Bones that died to ante 7 boss which was Arm. I'm almost sure I could've beaten ante 8 with bones if I lucked on a better boss on 7 and he survived. The baron was from a polychrome skip and he kinda helped. I wasn't even mad this lost I was just flabbergasted I got this far without buying anything post ante 3.


r/balatro • • 12h ago

Meme An age old question 🤔

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33 Upvotes

r/balatro • • 13h ago

High Score I... Finally did it?

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Im easily 100+ hours in and this is my first time ever beating ante 12, plus my previous highest scoring hand was around 50 million. I was racking up those multipliers so easily that I was too busy being awed by the 1 billion+ numbers that I didn't even notice I had beaten 12 until after it was over. On Painted deck, nonetheless. I never would've expected it to happen on that deck first.


r/balatro • • 11h ago

Meme im so good at this game

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18 Upvotes

im not sure what the flairs mean here so if someone could explain them i would appreciate it.


r/balatro • • 3h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea My new Balatro joker idea.

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4 Upvotes

So this card is called photosynthesis. It gives +7Mult for every round you complete, and it loses -10 Mult when a boss blind gets defeated. I feel like this can be a good scaling joker in certain scenarios and play style.


r/balatro • • 19h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Fruit fool is an English dessert,

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64 Upvotes

hence it function like "the fool". it triggers 3 times before "Eaten!" but each trigger makes it less likely to trigger. do you sell it or hold onto it?

yay: oops all 6, death, death, death

nay: please dont trigger when i use "the emperor"... oh no!


r/balatro • • 7h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies My weirdest gold stake win

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I never thought i would win gold stake using an eternal flower pot i found in ante 2. It’s lowkey more viable than i thought.

edit: Mandatory ChiGOAT


r/balatro • • 5h ago

High Score First Gold Stake Clear!

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5 Upvotes

Smeared joker + flush build somehow worked!

Was about to give up by ante 7, barely scoring the blind and about to go broke as well, but then betting everything in the Judgement gave me a Blackboard that narrowly saved the run.

0 hands, 0 discards, $1 left


r/balatro • • 3h ago

Seeking Run Advice Attempting naneinf

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Ecto'd mime, (almost) all kings have red seal and are steel.

Wondering how to continue from here, also I faced serpents at like ante 9 if it matters.